Tomahawked In Tallahassee

CLEMSON CHOPPED BY SIZZLING SEMINOLES
Fourth-ranked Florida State University’s football team came back from a two-touchdown second-half deficit to throttle No. 10 Clemson – handing head coach Dabo Swinney’s team its first loss of the season.
The Seminoles (4-0, 2-0 ACC) racked up a whopping 667 yards of total offense against the Tigers (3-1, 0-1 ACC) – [...]

Kitty Cruise Control

NO. 12 CLEMSON ROLLS PAST BALL STATE, AWAITS WATKINS’ RETURN FROM SUSPENSION
No Sammy Watkins?  No problem … again.
Clemson University’s high-octane offense racked up  526 yards on Saturday without its All-American wide receiver – who was serving the final game of a two-game suspension for an offseason pot bust.  The Tigers 52-27 thrashing of Ball State [...]

Right Paw Forward

CLEMSON OUTLASTS AUBURN IN ATLANTA THANKS TO ELLINGTON’S HEROICS AND … ITS DEFENSE?
“West Virginia scored again …” just not against Clemson.
While the No. 11 Mountaineers  and their explosive offense were putting 69 points on the board against Marshall, Clemson was doing its best to exorcize those demons against one of the most storied programs in [...]

Tigers Topple Tech, Take ACC Title

By Jordan Dominick || After being embarrassed in consecutive games, few college football pundits gave the No. 20 Clemson  Tigers a chance against 5th-ranked Virginia Tech in Saturday’s Atlantic Coast Conference championship game at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
Having been dominated by N.C. State two weeks ago and then defeated – and dissed [...]

Tigers Knock Off Seminoles

By Jordan Dominick || Is this really the same Clemson University team?
Early struggles against Troy and Wofford seem like ages ago as the 21st-ranked Tigers knocked off No. 11 Florida State 35-30 on Saturday – turning in yet another decisive offensive performance.
With the win, the Tigers are 4-0 for the first time since 2007. And [...]

Tigers Rally, Roll Past Troy

By Jordan Dominick || The Clemson University football team survived an early scare from the Troy Trojans to open up its 2011 campaign with a 43-19 victory.
And while the Tigers’ heralded young superstars more than lived up to their advance billing – many question marks remain for a team that hopes to take a major [...]

Clemson Cruises

Sophomore running back Andre Ellington rushed for a career-high 166 yards – including touchdown jaunts of 55 and 42 yards – to lead the Clemson Tigers to a resounding 27-13 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Saturday in Death Valley. Ellington also caught his first-ever touchdown reception – a 10-yard scoring strike from quarterback [...]

Tigers Turned Over

It wasn’t so much the Miami Hurricanes as it was a deluge of turnovers that spoiled Clemson University’s Atlantic Coast Conference opener on Saturday …
Clemson’s offense turned the ball over six times – three times in the fourth quarter alone – to hand Miami (3-1,1-0 ACC) a 30-21 victory at Death Valley. The seven giveaways [...]

“Scrubbing” One Out

Zach Braff was nowhere to be found, but this was an episode of “Scrubs” if we’ve ever seen one …
With its starters enjoying most of the game from the sidelines, Clemson University breezed past its second consecutive cupcake opponent on Saturday at Death Valley – handily defeating the Blue Hose of Presbyterian College 58-21.
It was [...]

Purrrrty Good

Remember “Thunder and Lightning,” Clemson fans?
Well you can call this pair “Rumble and Flash.”
Jamie Harper (“Rumble”) and Andre Ellington (“Flash”) did their best James Davis (“Thunder”) and C.J. Spiller (“Lightning”) impersonations on Saturday, racking up a combined 225 rushing yards in the Tigers’ season-opening 35-10 win over North Texas in Death Valley. Davis and Spiller [...]

Tech Wrecks Tigers’ Title Hopes

Georgia Tech withstood a ferocious Clemson comeback Saturday night to capture its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference Championship since 1990 and its first Orange Bowl bid since 1966.
Meanwhile, the Tigers (8-5) saw their ACC Championship and Orange Bowl droughts continue … and a career performance by Heisman hopeful C.J. Spiller squandered.
After being held in check [...]